Competition, Monopoly and Concentration in Wood Pulp and Recovered Paper Import Market of Iran

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1 Ph.D. Student, Department of forestry, Agricultural and natural resources faculty, Lorestan university, Iran

2 Assistant Prof., Forest economics, Department of forestry, Faculty of agriculture and natural resources, Lorestan University, Iran

3 Associate prof., Department of forestry, Faculty of natural resources, University of Guilan, Sowmeh Sara, Iran

Abstract

It is very essential to identify market concentration to organize the government decisions and policies in order to market adjustment. The aim of this study is to identify import market structure of Wood Pulp and Recovered Paper for helping government and implementing effective policies. In this study are applied indices such as Concentration Ratio, Herfindal-Hirschman, Comprehensive Concentration Industrial, Hannah-kay and Hall-Tideman for calculating market structure. The findings show that, degree of competition between Wood Pulp and Recovered Paper exporting countries is low and barriers to entry are high and it can be said this import market structure is an oligopoly market.

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Iranian Journal of Wood and Paper Industries
Volume 10, Issue 1
May 2019
Pages 101-113

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